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04-14-2020, 11:27 PM( This post was last modified: 04-14-2020, 11:39 PM by Ashutosh )
Gaurs are found all across Northeast India at altitudes below 1800m. So, basically from foothill of Himalayas to every place there is a slight elevation, Gaurs are found there. They like a bit of hilly terrain and forested landscape. That is the reason why only certain Central Indian parks like Melghat and Tadoba have Gaur.
Kaziranga only has a small population of Gaur because only on the fringes of Kaziranga’s wooded forests are the Karbi Anglong hills (where most animals from Kaziranga take refuge during annual floods). They are quite abundant in parks like Manas and also Royal Manas of Bhutan.
Gaur in Northeastern India are bigger than the ones from Southern India. Although, I am not sure they match the ones from Malaysia in weight, but the males still top 1,000 kilos easily.
And, the recent publication of diet of Indochinese tiger from Thailand does say that tigers kill bull gaurs. The average prey weight was 420 kilos (if I remember correctly) with few big males.
Maximum size of prey that a single male lion or tiger can kill
